DID has me, also - and I have come across folk who have tried to fake it in the TDU (Trauma and Dissociation Unit) I attend for treatment, but they don't fool the staff for very long. The staff there are very experienced and have watched a huge range of patients presenting with unique symptoms; and their alters, for over 10 years.
I am very sad to hear you say that Mayumarri is like that - I have heard of it, and hoped that it was a place for care and kindness - I know someone who worked there long ago as a volunteer, helping in the kitchen and etc, not as a counsellor, though she no longer has anything to do with the place, as it has changed a great deal. I believe that it was started with very high ideals, but maybe was too controlled by one person - I know very little about it, really, though I was told that it was more or less becoming like a cult, which I really hope is not so.
Like you, Anonymous, I hate having DID. It has cruelled my life - and impacted enormously on my children. As you say, anyone who has it knows what it takes to get it, and would not wish that on anyone. I denied the diagnosis for a long time, and have now accepted it, which has enabled me to start working on the impossible tangle in my mind. Hard work, but I have made some movements, and am starting to be able to distinguish some of the "pieces" that have always before just been noise.
I hope that you find a place that can help - from your mention of Mayumarri I deduce you are in Oz - there are two places in Oz that treat DID that I know of - both private, unfortunately, so you would need Health Cover - Delmont Hospital in Melbourne, and Belmont Hospital in Brisbane. I think the similar names are just a coincidence - good luck.
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DID has me, also - and I have come across folk who have tried to fake it in the TDU (Trauma and Dissociation Unit) I attend for treatment, but they don't fool the staff for very long. The staff there are very experienced and have watched a huge range of patients presenting with unique symptoms; and their alters, for over 10 years.
I am very sad to hear you say that Mayumarri is like that - I have heard of it, and hoped that it was a place for care and kindness - I know someone who worked there long ago as a volunteer, helping in the kitchen and etc, not as a counsellor, though she no longer has anything to do with the place, as it has changed a great deal. I believe that it was started with very high ideals, but maybe was too controlled by one person - I know very little about it, really, though I was told that it was more or less becoming like a cult, which I really hope is not so.
Like you, Anonymous, I hate having DID. It has cruelled my life - and impacted enormously on my children. As you say, anyone who has it knows what it takes to get it, and would not wish that on anyone. I denied the diagnosis for a long time, and have now accepted it, which has enabled me to start working on the impossible tangle in my mind. Hard work, but I have made some movements, and am starting to be able to distinguish some of the "pieces" that have always before just been noise.
I hope that you find a place that can help - from your mention of Mayumarri I deduce you are in Oz - there are two places in Oz that treat DID that I know of - both private, unfortunately, so you would need Health Cover - Delmont Hospital in Melbourne, and Belmont Hospital in Brisbane. I think the similar names are just a coincidence - good luck.
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